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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 02-10-2007 23:07

Hi

* locality - Pego do Inferno - Tavira - ALGARVE - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.09.30
* size - 7 mm (medium fly)
* habitat - woodland
* substrate - on dry plant.

Very beautiful Ectophasia with a very reddish abdomen.

EDIT---> Title changed from "Ectophasia with very reddish abdomen" to "Tachinidae - Ectophasia oblonga"

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 09:46

Posted by ChrisR on 03-10-2007 00:25

I doubt it ... if it was alive then it was feeling very relaxed and cooperative

My guess is Ectophasia oblonga - abdomen reddish and longer than broad with reduced/absent median longitudinal line.

Posted by Tony T on 03-10-2007 03:30

Chris Raper wrote:
I doubt it ... if it was alive then it was feeling very relaxed and cooperative

Ouch

! I guess it was 'the standing on its knees' that made it look relaxed (and dead

)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 08:21

Tony T wrote:

Chris Raper wrote:
I doubt it ... if it was alive then it was feeling very relaxed and cooperative

Ouch

! I guess it was 'the standing on its knees' that made it look relaxed (and dead

)

It is really dead.

I caught the fly alive and put it inside a vial. I didn't have the camera when I was on the field. When I had access to my camera the fly was dead (only 1 day, there are flies that can survive over 1 week inside a vial - Sciomyzidae, and some Asilidae, for example).

For me it is more harder to take good photos to dead specimens than alive!!!

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 08:55

Chris Raper wrote:
I doubt it ... if it was alive then it was feeling very relaxed and cooperative

My guess is Ectophasia oblonga - abdomen reddish and longer than broad with reduced/absent median longitudinal line.

It is apparent that this fly has smaller wings (they are folded)... see near the wing base. There are two small membranes.. It is very easy to spot them when we take a look at the specimen.
Take a look at the first photo.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 09:01

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 09:37

#10

thanks, Liekele.
Liekele, there are some Miltogramminae flies waiting confirmation of ID...